Disk vehicle wheel



' Jan. 9, 1928.

W. E. WILLIAMS. DISK VEHICLE WHEEL.

. FILED APR. 30, 1920.

atented an. '9, I923.

WILLIAM ESTUS WILLIflMS, OI 1: 1

I CAGO, ILLINOIS.

JDIfiK VEHICLE WHEEL.

Application filed April 30, 1920. Serial No. 377,618.

Toallwhomitmayconcem:

Be it known that I WILLIAM Enxsrus WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Disk Vehicle Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relatesv to that class of wheels, for such vehicles as automobiles, wherein rubber tires are used, and tire changes are more or less frequent.

1 The object of myinvention is to provide a very cheaply constructed and easily demounted disk wheel that may be applied .to the hubs frequently found in use with wooden spo'ked wheels, without requiring any material changes in the form of the said hubs. Further, my object is to form a very light, and very strong and neat appearing disk wheel and one that may be readily demounted at the hub.

The invention is set forth in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the wheel.

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation on a lar er-scale than that of Figure 1.

Figure 3 shows a modified form of a hub connection.

Figure 4 shows a front elevation of a reinforcing diskused with my wheel.

Figures 5'and 6 show details of reinforcing the holes where the stud bolts go through the disk.

In the drawing 1 indicates the rim of an ordinary automobile Wheel here shown as the clincher type. By means of rivets 2 I fasten to the said rim through the medium of the flange 3, the disk Iof my wheel. This disk 4 extends down and terminates in an annular bearing at 5 around the hub aperture. The disk 4 is reinforced in the back by a companion-disk or flange 6. This disk 6 is connected at 7 by means of rivets or spot welds to the main disk 4 and the disk 6 extends down and terminates in an annular flange 8 which is slotted or cut asunder for short distances as indicated by 9.

The ordinary hub of the wheel is indicated by 10 and is provided with the flange 11 to which there is secured the brake drum 12 through the medium of stud screws 13. These screws have shoulders 14 which pass through apertures in the disk 6 and are threaded on their outer ends 16 to receive nuts 17 clamping lock washers 18, which clamp an embossed annular projection 19 of the main disk. This annular projection 19 sustains the load of the clamping nuts 17 and in order to give stiflness for this purpose Iprovide the reentrant groove 20 and the straight portion 21. From the reentrant groove 20 the metal of the main disk is anged outward asis indicated by 21 and turned over into the annular bearing 5 as previously mentioned.

When the nuts 17 are screwed tightly on to the ends 16 of the stud bolts 13 they serve to press the annular bearing portion 5 of the main disk tightly on to the inclined flange 8 of the disk 6 and as this flange is slotted or cut asunder as indicated by 9 it Will yield slightly and become a tight fit on the barrel 22 of the hub 10 and thus make a tight fit for the disk in this connection on to the hub.

I may reinforce the main disk around the hub portion by an additional disk as indicated by 23 in Flgure 3, as the main disk 4 is made out of relatively thin metal.

In order to thicken up the metal around the apertures 15 where the stud bolts engage the said holes I may emboss the sheet and turn out slight flanges as is indicated by! 24 in Figure 5. These flanges are formed by cutting the peculiar shaped hole 25 as is shown by Figure 6.

By the construction shown I am able to use the ordinary hub found on a wooden wheel and make a disk wheel that demounts at the hub and fits tightly when secured homev and yet will readily come loose when demounting is desired.

The method of reinforcing the main disk around the hub as is indicated permits a very thin disk to be used for the main body of the wheel and yet secure a wheel that is very light and very strong.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a hub having a rigid peripherally ro'jecting flange provided with a series 0 bolts fixed thereto and projecting outwardly parallel to the wheels axis, of a main wheel disk spaced laterally from said flange, perforated to pass over said bolts, and adjustable along the latter, and means for forcibly pressing the disk toward the flange and connecting it thereto.

2. The combination with a hub body having a peripheral rigid flange, of an annular member resting against the side of said flange at some distance from said body and having its central zone extending obliquely from said flange to meet said body between the plane of the flange and the bodys outer end, a main Wheel disk secured to and laterally supported by the outer portion of said annular member and having its central marginal portion resting on said central zone and arranged for small adjustments along the same, and means for forcibly making such adjustments.

3. In a wheel of the class described, a disk forming the web of the wheel and provided around its central aperture with a stiffened annular portion adapted to take the strain of the clamping bolts; in combination with a reinforcing disk around the central hub area of the main disk and the said reinforcing disk having a conical projection extending into and clamped by an annular portion of the main disk around the hub barrel region and a hub having a hub barrel and having radially extending flange to which the said disks are attached.

4. In a wheel of the class described, a disk forming the main web of the Wheel, a hub having a horizontally extending barrel and a radially extending flange, a reinforcing disk around the hub zone for the main disk, the reinforcing disk having the central portion extending obliquely to the hub barrel and slotted to permit small adjustments of the parts, in combination with a series of stud bolts passing through the said disks and clamping the same to the flange of the said hub.

5. In a wheel of the class described, a disk forming the main web of the wheel and extending down to and forming the front face around the hub; in combination with a reinforcing disk secured to the main disk in the outer margin of the hub zone and spaced from the main disk around the zone of the hub flange and again coming in contact with the main disk around the cone of the hub barrel; with a hub having a horizontally extending barrel and radially extending flange, and a series of bolts passin through and fastening the said main disk and reinforcing disk to the hub flange in the zone where the said flanges are spaced from each other.

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this twenty-seventh day of April, 1920.

WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIALIS. Witnesses:

H. F. KLINE,

F. M. ZOBEL. 

